66 KECOKD OF HOKTICULTURE. 



IV. 

 NOTES 



ON SOME OF THE NEW HARDY ORNAMENTAL TREES, 

 SHRUBS, AND HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 



In most of the European countries there are Horticul- 

 tural societies which receive the special aid of the govern- 

 ment under which they exist. But the societies of our 

 country receive no such patronage, and having to depend 

 wholly upon the exertions of individuals for their support, 

 it is not surprising that they should so often languish for 

 the want of means to prosecute their great work. 



The great Horticultural societies of England, France, 

 Belgium, and other foreign countries, keep a record of 

 the introduction of new plants, so that at any future time 

 the date of their discovery or advent may be known. 

 Having no national society in the United States, nor a 

 local one wdiich attempts the introduction or cultivation 

 of new plants, we have to depend upon the reports of 

 foreign societies or the Horticultural periodicals for our 

 information upon this subject. Could Ave ascertain the 

 names of the new plants wliich were introduced into tlie 

 United States in 1867, avc Avould place them on record, 

 and omit all others. But as w^e can not do this, we will 

 content ourselves by referring to a few of those noticed in 

 foreign journals, which promise to be worthy of introduc- 

 tion, although it is quite probable that some of them have 



